On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly > > related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and > > emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common > > problems with KDE: > > > > Put 'kdeprefix' in USE and rebuild > > Put KDE:3.5 in world and recheck. > > > > This last one often needs to be redone recursively to get everything in > > world that needs to be there. I've heard that autounmask helps with this > > kdeprefix has nothing to do with KDE3. It's not needed. It's only > needed to have many KDE4 versions at the same time.
That's not true. With USE=-kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/ With USE=kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/kde/4.x The net result, when co-installed with kde-3.x, is that your various *PATH variables will always have 3 before 4 or vice-versa. Which is a major pita trying to get 3 and 4 to co-exist. Try it sometime, and watch KDE-4 try to read KDE-3's config and data files. Or have KDE-4 launch konqueror-4 and always get it right every time. There's only one sane way to install KDE on gentoo - always use SLOTs, always put every version in it's own directory in /usr/kde/, always add the relevant directories to PATH | LDPATH | etc at start-up. The other option is to have one, and only one, kde version at any time. > I'll try the KDE:3.5 thingy. I wonder though why the heck I have to do > this. KDE4 should have been put in its own tree. Well that's your opinion, you are entitled to it. The KDE devs don't agree though, and their three of a kind trumps your two pairs. If you are going to assert that KDE-4 SHOULD be in it's own tree, then you are going to have to present a sane argument for why, and for why the existing decision is incorrect. Just saying something "should be" doesn't cut the mustard in this case. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
